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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Point of Order: How StatsNZ contentiously counts Kiwis


.......or miscounts them? for gender and ethnicity purposes

This article – posted today on Homepaddock – draws attention to contentious data-collecting issues raised by the way StatisticsNZ counts people for gender-defining and ethnicity purposes. The distorted results are influential in determining who gets how much funding and the number of Maori seats in Parliament…

Suzanne Levy has spotted a problem with the way StatisticsNZ counts people: